Use %1 to ping a list of hosts

[Nic]

Trying to ping an ever changing list of hosts by means of
the %1 variable...

Please advise,

Nic

Batch file contents

Ping %1 hosts.txt >> hostresp.tst

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Your question is unclear. Please be more specific.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Trying to ping an ever changing list of hosts by means of
the %1 variable...

Please advise,

Nic

Batch file contents

Ping %1 hosts.txt >> hostresp.tst

Batch contents:

For /f "Tokens=*" %%p in (hosts.txt) do ping %%p>>hostresp.txt

or

For /f "Tokens=*" %%p in ('type hosts.txt') do ping %%p>>hostresp.txt

where hosts.txt contains either the ip address or host name


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Guest]

Great Job!! Jerold!! I do appriciate your help

-Nic